239. IMPORTANTE TÊTE DE GUANYIN EN BOIS Dynastie Jin (1115-1234) A LARGE WOOD HEAD OF GUANYIN Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) Well carved with a full, round face, with high crescent-shaped eye brows, heavy eyelids over downcast, half-open eyes, with a straight nose with prominent flared nostrils above full lips dimpled at the sides, flanked by long pendulous earlobes, the hair gathered in a high chignon adorned with a with an elaborate crown centering on the image of Amithaba on a lotus base, stand. 50.3cm (19 3/4in) high. (2). 金 木雕觀音首 Provenance: Hofrat Alexander Koch (1860-1939), Darmstadt Dr. Fritz Nagel, Mannheim, 19 November 1935, lot 49 Private collection, Bavaria 來源： 達姆施塔特Hofrat Alexander Koch（1860-1939）珍藏 曼海姆Fritz Nagel博士珍藏，1935年11月19日，編號49 巴伐利亞私人收藏 Compare a closely related polychrome-painted carved wood figure of a bodhisattva dated to the Jin dynasty, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, published in Denise Patry Leidy and Donna Strahan, Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven, 2010, A49; and a very similar wood figure of a bodhisattva, also dated to the Jin dynasty, in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, exhibited and published in Masterworks in Wood: China and Japan, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 1976, cat.no.13.